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AWS for Solutions Architects

By : Alberto Artasanchez
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Book Image

AWS for Solutions Architects

3 (1)
By: Alberto Artasanchez

Overview of this book

One of the most popular cloud platforms in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers hundreds of services with thousands of features to help you build scalable cloud solutions; however, it can be overwhelming to navigate the vast number of services and decide which ones best suit your requirements. Whether you are an application architect, enterprise architect, developer, or operations engineer, this book will take you through AWS architectural patterns and guide you in selecting the most appropriate services for your projects. AWS for Solutions Architects is a comprehensive guide that covers the essential concepts that you need to know for designing well-architected AWS solutions that solve the challenges organizations face daily. You'll get to grips with AWS architectural principles and patterns by implementing best practices and recommended techniques for real-world use cases. The book will show you how to enhance operational efficiency, security, reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness using real-world examples. By the end of this AWS book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of how to design AWS architectures using the most appropriate services to meet your organization's technological and business requirements.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring AWS
4
Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases
11
Section 3: Applying Architectural Patterns and Reference Architectures
17
Section 4: Hands-On Labs

Introduction to AWS Glue

What is AWS Glue? AWS Glue is a fully managed service that is used to extract data from data sources, ingest the data into other AWS services such as Amazon S3, and transform this data so that it can then be used by consuming services or users. It is not meant to be used for small batches and files. Under the hood, AWS Glue uses Apache Spark, running it in a serverless environment. It can process terabyte- and petabyte-scale workloads, but it comes with some overhead and that's the reason why it should only be used for big data projects.

Another important feature of AWS Glue is that it can handle disparate sources such as SQL and NoSQL databases – not just Amazon S3 files.

As we mentioned in the introduction, it is hard to overestimate the value of data in the current environment. Regardless of the industry, properly harnessing and leveraging data is critical to be able to compete today. AWS Glue and its underlying Apache Spark engine function...